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Window Sash' for Railroad Crs. No. 29,631. Patented Aug. 14, 1860.

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HANGING SASH OF RAILROAD-CAR WINDOWS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,631, dated August 14, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, M. MESSER and A. STEINBRENER, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railroad- Car lvindow Sash and Casing; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

In our invention Figure l represents an inside view of a car window casing and blind. A A represent the window frame; B B the lower blinds; and C C the top blind.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of Fig. 1 showing the several grooves for the reception of the sash and blinds. C C shows the groove for the upper blind. B B shows the groove for the large sliding blind. D D is the groove for the reception of the large slidingsash. E E is the groove for the small upper sash. This groove is just wide enough and deep enough to receive the sash, so that the front side of the sash is flush with the groove D. These several grooves are planed out in a solid piece of timber which forms the sides oit' the frame or casing; consequently these are cleats that are movable to hold in the sash.

The groove D being deeper laterally upon one side as at E Fig. 2, allows the sash E to be introduced into the groove E without difficulty. All the grooves except E are plowed about half an inch deeper, on one side of the frame, than the other, as seen at A in Fig. l.

In order to introduce the blinds and large sash and keep them in place, we provide one side of the sash or blind with springs F F and dowel pin G Fig. 5. The dowel pin is of suficient length to reach the bottom or rather edge of the groove when the sash is in place, and the springs are of sufficient strength to keep the sash or blind pressed into the opposite groove. Holes seen at H, are bored into the deeper groove, and into one of these, the dowel G is pressed, by compressing the springs F, until the opposite edge can be introduced into the groove, and when the sash or blind is shoved either up or down, the dowel prevents any lateral movement. The sash and blinds can thus be introduced or removed at pleasure by simply pressing the dowel into the hole H.

The small, or upper sash E Fig. 2, is fitted for, and secured in its proper place in the following named manner: At the lower end of the groove E E Fig. 3, on both sides of the casing, is cut a notch N which elongates the back part of the. groove downward about three-eighths of an inch. The lower edge of the sash E, is rabbeted out or cut so as to lit the notch N. At the upper edge of the sash E Fig. 2, the groove for the reception of the sash extends upward as seen at Q a distance equal to the depth of the notch N. One or more dowel pins G are introduced into the upper edge of the sash E, the upper edge of the sash being also provided with a spring P for pressing the sash downward into the notch N. To put this sash in place, (all the others being removed) the upper edge of the sash E to which the dowel pins Gr and spring P are attached, is first entered into the groove Q. The sash is then pressed upward by compressing the spring P, until the lower edge of the sash will drop into the groove E above the notch N. The spring P will now press the sash downward and firmly into the notch N which secures the lower edge in place. The dowel pins Gr, being longer than the depth of the depth of the groove Q, or notch N', holds the upper edge of the sash securely in place. This sash can be removed at pleasure, by first pressing it upward, until the lower edge is free from the notch N then sliding it downward until the dowel pins G leave the holes O, and then by sliding it laterally into the deeper groove D', when it becomes detached from the case.

The advantages arising from our improvement may be briefly stated as follows: In running passenger cars, the windows always become more or less soiled with dust, and it becomes necessary to wash them at the end of the route. In the ordinary mode of structure the sash and blinds are fastened in by screws in the facings of the case, as seen in Figs. 6 and 7, consequently, the glass must be washed while the sash remains in place, or the facings must all be removed, by taking out the screws. The repeated removal of the screws soon wears the screw hole larger, they become loose, and the whole structure becomes thus impaired. If the Windows are Washed While the Sash are n the easing, they become swollen and tight, and Subsequently rotten. With our mprovement, all these dfoultes are obvated.

What We claim as our improvement and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s-

The securing the Sash E', in railroad cars, by means of the notch N, spring P and dowels Gr When these several parts are ar- 10 ranged and operated substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

M. MESSER. A. STEINBRENER.

Vtnesses:

WV. H. BURRIDGE, J. H. BURRIDGE. 

